Hunger

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events w... (more)

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens. (less)

"Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological s... (more)

"Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties{u2014}including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life{u2014}and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn{u2019}t yet been told but needs to be." -- (less)

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events w... (more)

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens. (less)

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It's been three months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Food ran out weeks ago, and starvation is imminent. Meanw... (more)

It's been three months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Food ran out weeks ago, and starvation is imminent. Meanwhile, the normal teens have grown resentful of the kids with powers. And when an unthinkable tragedy occurs, chaos descends upon the town. There is no longer right and wrong. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous. But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them. The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry. (less)

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike ... (more)

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard. (less)

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An epic and vividly evocative exploration of humanity pushed to the limits during the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike in the Maze... (more)

An epic and vividly evocative exploration of humanity pushed to the limits during the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland. (less)